I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack

OK. So I know, I know, I know… it has been two months since my last confession.. ummmmm I mean blog post… so here I am to make amends. But I have to throw a few excuses out there as to why I had not posted – the first being; things became so normal and day to day here in Paris that I found it hard to share anything exciting. The shopping, the food, even the unreal crazy folk on the metro became just ordinary. That was until I realised that it is slowly creeping up on the end of my contract for my job here in Paris and I needed to spice it up a bit because well I just have no idea what my life is going to throw at me in the near future and I want every single memory I make before my return to the US absolutely amazing (maybe that is a high expectation but a feel it is a totally worthwhile expectation). So I can be totally honest and say that over the past few weeks I have done much more than I normally would have during a regular week in Paris. After spending almost a month back in the states – with no real leads as to what I am going to be doing next – I thought it would be really hard to return to the City of Lights and my life here, but I was dead wrong. It all fell back into place seamlessly and now to be honest I find myself questioning what the hell am I doing?!?!!? Now many of you know that I also made the same kind of comment about wanting to stay here knowing that my family and friends are back in New England and that there is a huge draw to want to be back, but why oh why can’t I just mash the two up? I mean is it so much to ask for a job that would allow me to spend 75% of my time in the US travelling and the other 25% back here in Paris? So if any of you have a brilliant idea or two about how to make that happen, I am all ears, literally, spill them. I feel it would be the perfect solution for me. But enough waaaaaahhhhhh about having to move and real life choices, let’s get to the nitty gritty – which include all of my adventures since I returned to Paris at the beginning of April. Let’s see – I have seen street dancing, Science Museums, been to my favourite Vietnamese restaurant with my two favourite children and the partner in crime, spent an entire day reading in front of my favourite window in my apartment while drinking REAL espresso (I had no idea how much I missed that liquid sunshine until I had my first sip when I returned), finally managed to bake up a tasty treat with all of the conversions done in French (did you know they don’t have measuring spoons here, just use a soup spoon or coffee spoon?),  eaten falafel with the best spicy green chilli  sauce ever, travelled on the TGV to the Loire Valley, visited my first real winery, four castles, saw the French countryside and was asked to be on a tv show… and those are only the things I can remember right now as I type. As always there are LOADS of photos and I plan on taking sometime this week to share my favorites and tell you (if anyone is still reading this silly little thing) about all of my adventures. Actually for the first time in a while I am incredibly excited to write about these little tid bits and share them… so I hope you are ready for this :)